Creuzer
Some good friends came down from Milwaukee for the day! Thanks guys, it's good to see you again. You always make my day when you come!
I am paging through my copy of The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall day-dreaming of gardening.
Katie is making Apple Pie tonight for tomorrow. Made too much filling, so I vacuum sealed it and put the extra in the freezer.
I am gonna try that No Knead Bread from the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day book. Made up a small batch tonight. Gonna see how it works.
Is using my pregnant wife's belly as a mouse pad cheating? I can surf the web and feel the baby kick at the same time!
I've driven more in the last three days than the prior three weeks. I drove right past where i am getting lunch. #IHATEDRIVING
**cries** The 2nd bulb just went out on my Coral Life light hood for my little fish tank. http://ow.ly/14zLs
Don't you just HATE that when you forget your checkbook, so you can't write an escrow check? Tonight or tomorrow morning I drop that off.
Of course. I want to inspect a roof and it's snowing out.
I guess i should consider myself lucky that this is the first time i need to drive to fulfill my pregnant wife's cravings.
I will be so happy when the neighbors' lack of cooking skills affect my internet connection.
Last night, slipped and fell with 2 cartons of eggs, broke half a dozen of them. Cracked the broken ones into a mason jar. #SAVE
Don't you just love it when you bash your head against the wall until it makes sense? The numbers work out. YAY!
Bottom tray of tomatoes are over dried, one above not quite done, top two are good. I vacuum packed 3 trays for long term, jar for the rest.
Two and a half hours with the Realtor tonight. An offer has been drafted. Now to do a bit of double checking before submitting.
This must explain the snow falling today. Good Groundhog! RT @meisteg: Six more weeks of winter! *sigh* #groundhogsday
I hate most fridges. Why put the door between your ankles and belly button. Arms are attached at shoulders. Elbows are above my belly button
- The bread I made the bread pudding from. Looks good, doesn't it?
- drinking and dehydrating with some home brewed mead and roma tomatoes.
Bread pudding is wonderfully delicious, horribly not set. More time in the oven.
I miss baking. Used dishes tonight I haven't since I got married! http://ow.ly/12OZM Tonight's mess is in the name of Bread Pudding.
Excess mead I am running through a coffee filter. Takes a lot of the yeasty out of it. Drinkable. Tastes potent yet. Something to sip on.
I am racking my mead tonight into a milk jug and old mead bottle. Extra is into glasses. Tastes... yeasty and strong.
I just found my gallon glass jugs. Organic apple juice. Stupid expensive, but i will use the glass for a long time.
Off to Half Price Book Stores to turn in a few books, and get a couple book on our list. Lets hope that it doesn't cost too much!
Well, it's evident that my wife and I have a strong overlap in our reading interests. I just culled the duplicates and we have a good stack
I picked up this sewing book for a buck http://www.librarything.com/work/465301/book/56068317 and it's looking to be quite good!
Well, today's houses where busts. Both had really stupid, nearly useless hilly yards. One was a double lot in town, the other 3 acres.
I just bought two real estate books. Guess it's time to become an expert on the subject. One already has the important bits highlighted.
Oh happy day! I found my missing glove. Camouflage is hard to see when it's laying in the curb. The glove looks to have been ran over once.
It's 5 o'clock somewhere. That's right, right here! I am outa here!
I am quite annoyed with myself. I have lost a glove. I've retraced my steps, and no glove to be found. **sighs**
I just got off of a 3 hours conference call Between the US, a few European countries and Japan. My office is 80 from the door being closed.
Whoa. I looked at a home tonight. Rather liked it. Totally got spun around and guessed which way it faces wrong. This changes the garden..
Picked up a wooden rocking chair tonight that's almost identical to what I grew up with. One arm is broken off, but fixable I think.
Went and saw a house tonight. A gardenable yard. Really nice kitchen. Lot's of room in the basement. I liked it for being in town.
Oi! The tedium. Creating a mod-rewrite rewerite-map to forward all the old website pages to the new pages for a site we just updated.
I picked up a couple of laser printers tonight. One is a HP Laserjet 4. I just LOVE these units. I've had 4-5 of them now. It's all set up!
Uhm... there's a dog running around the office. Somebody left a dog here to dig through my garbage. Ha! it's name is 'Dog'.
New phones in the office today. YAY, I no longer need to remember [feature]70 to transfer a call. I have a transfer button now! How cool!
I must remember to clean freezer more often. I found a Venison Roast. Just put it into the crockpot for dinner!
Defrosting the freezer, not much fun. An excuse to re-reorganize it. I am going to try putting in some soda crates to help organize it.
Not sure I am going to like living long-term so far south, here in Chicagoland. All my wonderful snow melted on my birthday weekend!
Somebody needs to convince Todd he needs to open a Culvers. I love this place.
I got a columbia fleace jacket for my birthday. I rather like it. A good travel jacket on nice warm days like today.
I love going to my folks. I just saw a bald eagle ten feet away and a flock of swans or gray geese. I can't tell by just the butts and feet.
I made a tailgate for the wood-rack on my dad's 4wheeler. 100 feet of 550 paracord tied into a net. Rope trim and integrated bungee cords.
I was hoping to get out this weekend and finish pruning the apple trees. No such luck, to warm and now it's snowing!
Lots of cops out tonight.
Don't you just hate it when somebody provides you with an API, you code against it, and they change the output on you without notice?
I just saved another unfortunate soul from a long wait for a bus that won't come. @ElginIL Leave the old sign with a map to the new stops.
I really despise doing anything more involved with email then send/receive using gmail. Trouble shooting delivery issues, parsing, etc. suck
These poor geese must be about as confused about the weather as the weathermen. It's raining out, they are flying WNW.
Oh.... Isn't Karma a bitch. The Conference call I got up extra early to participate in... is Next week.
I am not a morning person. I hate being up so early!
Where do you do your best programming? I seem to do mine in the shower. Solved another problem in a simple, elegant way this morning.
Some Realtors are so dumb. I got all excited about an affordable 7 acres within 20 miles of work... to sort out it's in Nebraska. #FAIL
I am so cruel. My poor wife has to sit and stare at her wrapped birthday present for a full day before she can open it tomorrow.
For dessert tonight, I made blackberry shortcake. My blackberry sauce was a bit off. It was suggested not quite sweet enough.
Finding beverages sold in glass is hard. The only thing i can find is half gallons of milk. I am wanting those gallon cider jugs.
It.s a wonderfull foggy night out tonight.
I love my Kitchen Aid stand Mixer. I just made RAMEN noodles (kinda) with it. Frying the fresh noodles was SOO cool. They just puff right up
Hey, I found a camera that the registry will allow me to add... body only. Nobody will get it for me, because it's stupid expensive. LOL
**sighs** Gift registries are so hard! I feel like I am begging. To boot, I can't put the camera I want on the registry. Bummer
RT @eaton: Due to the imbalance of retention vs. acquisition costs, a penny saved is really more like 1.2 pennies earned. #pedant #nerd
Sliding Glass Door Insulation
I have a leaky sliding glass door. No, water doesn't poor in every time it rains, cold air comes in. I don't know why, by my apartment sucks - it pulls air in from the outside.
So, I decided to insulate my sliding glass door. I looked at the sliding glass door insulation kits for $13, but that renders the door useless. I thought about doing just the glass, but that doesn't really stop the leaks, just reduces the cold air falling off the window from being in contact with such a large, cold surface.
So, I build a double pain, plastic door.
Using my favorite stuff... Duct tape!
I used a bit of scrap lumber I had to build the frame. I had kept a bundle of edge that got trimmed of some one-by at some point in the past.
The joints are just duct taped together. This is a temporary structure, so it's fine by me.
I created a duct tape hinge by leaving a gap in the wood when I taped it together. This allows the joint to hinge. Clever, I think.
I have moved this messed up roll of double sided tape, foam weather stripping from WI, to FL, to IL. I am such a packrat. It is a sickness. I can make cool things by scrounging around in a closet. **grin**
Here, I have the whole set up installed. The window isn't usable for looking out anymore, but that's not a big deal, the drainage ditch in the yard and street aren't that grand of a vista anyhow.
I used some small hooks to hold my contraption to the wall. I just screw them down until I can twist them and they will hold the frame snug. I used the weather stripping for both sealing and also shimming the frame out so the hooks would hold it snuggly. I put these around the right hand half, including on top.
On the left hand side, by the slider, I put just a single hook. I use this as the 'latch' as I can give it a quick twist, and the frame can open up on my duct-tape hinges. I can now use the sliding glass door, even though it's covered in 2 layers of plastic sheeting.
How cool is that? (ugly as sin, too, isn't it?)
The blinds close to hide the whole thing, so it look just fine from the inside.
Tags: apartment, ideas
Sprint. You just wasted 8 minutes of my life by having somebody call me who barely speaks english and try to 'give' me a new phone. #FAIL
#FVCP Anybody have any local co-location suggestions? I am exploring either co-locating locally, or renewing another dedicated webserver.
Just got my second unsolicited taunting while i am waiting in line by those just out of the show. "It's a good movie" & "Well worth the ...
I wonder about some people. Who looks at the weather, see that the windchill is -5 and decide "I am going to wear a short skirt out"
The movie starts in an hour and fifteen minutes. There is already a line around the corner.
Got tickets to see Avatar on iMax. At iHop now for dinner while we wait.
Trying BOXEE tonight... Less then enthusiastic about the whole thing. Could just by my crappy computer though.
Elgin's snow clean-up efforts was featured on ABC Ch. 7 news @ 4:30 today. Check it out online http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=7206600
It's amazing the difference a index on a database field will make in website performance. I had forgotten to create an index. Oohps.
And my backups commence, thus, my ability to work stops. I guess I will call it a night, even though there is more I wanted to do yet.
Somehow me helping to vacuum turned into a steam cleaning, furniture rearranging, all day affair. It needed to be done from before i got ...
Wow. Somebody at LASKO has a head on their shoulders. This fan is designed to come apart to be cleaned. With instructions printed on the ...
I just found a red metal tricycle for at a thrift store. It looks brand new! I just HAD to have it of course. So, it's mine now!
You know... I don't think I want to spend any more time at work this year. Have a safe new years everyone!
**sighs** Another 1/2 hour older. Just called Sprint for the 3rd month in a row for over billing on the 1phone that picturemail works on.
Heh. I guess the .FedGov wants more money. I got the 1040 booklet today in the mail.
I am listening to @Podchef's latest cooking show for a second time tonight while prepping my chicken for the rotisserie. http://ow.ly/QVvg
I was abducted by an Englishman on the way to work! He drove up, and told me to get into the car. Good thing I know him, bought me a bagel!
While I was at my parents, and making my cat annoyer, I also made the backplane to my TV antenna. This is just a reflector for the antenna to give it better gain.
It's actually a little short, but I didn't want to pay the $6 difference for the taller wire mesh.
It needs to all turn white or something, as it's visually kinda dominating the room.
It needs to be tipped away from the wall a little bit to get the right angle to point towards Chicagot to get the towers. It does reject Rockford and DeKalb stations quite strongly though, but alas, that's it's design.
Tags: apartment, gadgets
The lazy ass on the 4wheeler who plows the sidewalks at my apt. is starting to really piss me off. I shoveled the pile of snow twice today!
Walking home for lunch with a shovel - I gotta shovel out the sidewalks that the plows plugged up. Again.
Cat Food Tray
My cat, Brother, has a habit that drives my wife crazy. He scoops the food out of his feeder, onto the floor and eats it off the floor. Well, some of it.
So I made a cat food tray to put the feeder on top of. It will catch the food and allow us to pour it back into the feeder.
Not to bad for not taking any measurements. It's a tad long, but not too bad.
And he likes it. It's gonna frustrate him to no end, but he will eat off of it.
Tags: ideas, kittens
We are home again.
Ah snap, it's raining and foggy on the way home. Just my luck.
Finally here. Only a ten hour drive.
This consisant freezing rain on snowy roads is getting old.
5 and half hours to go 208 miles!
Snowing so hard you cant see the traffic groves or the lines any more:)
UPS truck just passed. He has to go. Has Christmas presants in there!
Freezing rains have now become snow in Madison.
Woo hoo! Passing people and im only going 25 on the interstate!
Saw two cars in the ditch. One already pulled out at the state line. Roads are glare ice and its raining.
Went over an icey bridge and seen a semi in the ditch.
Forgive me for i dont know Chicago weather very well. Is it suppose to rain like this the day before Christmas Eve?
Have you ever received a personal Christmas card and can't for the life of you, figure out who it's from?
I have installed a filing cabinet in the back of the trucklet - lets see if I can deliver it yet tonight. Wish me luck on the drive!
It's probably just because I didn't pay attention, but I didn't think waxwings hung around this late into the year.
Anyone know how to dehydrate Kiwi so they don't taste awful? Mine are just bleh! Not quite sour, not quite I don't know what.
Time to play my favorite game. How cheap can I be. It appears that cotton kite string makes a great candle wick. I just refilled a tea light
OK, enough work for the day. 12 hours at the office is enough for me!
MySQL neat trick, use "SELECT *
FROM `tablename`
PROCEDURE ANALYSE ( ) " to see what MySQL suggestions could be good field sizes and types.
While programmers know GIGO means Garbage In, Garbage Out, the bossman seems to expect it to mean Garbage In, Gold Out.
After lunch, they where plowing my apt. parking lot, so I moved my trucklet to a plowed spot. The plow driver waved me down and thanked me!
Called the cops this morning, no report was filed even though they where there. I crawled underneath, it appears the truck is otherwise OK.
Extra weight for traction
I saw this set up and thought it was clever. The city put concrete barricades into the back of the utility trucks for traction last week when it was so slippery.
Tags: weather
Somebody clipped my truck today while it was in the parking lot. Bent the hell out of the bike rack. Don't think they bent the hitch.
Kiwis and Tomatoes in the dehydrator for a test run. Half a tray of each just to see how they turn out.
Tonight's foray into work was a stunning success. I am now only a week behind where I need to be! I am going to wander home and putz about.
**sighs** I suppose, the work isn't going to do itself. I am off to the office to put in a few extra hours.
marble chess aquarium decoration
I was at a thrift store last weekend, and found this lousy marble chess set for $3.83. Square cut pieces, lots of chips and broken off bits, but it was all there.
I thought it would be perfect in one of my fish tanks.
What do you think?
Tags: aquaria
Eight deer between dinner and home. Only nearly hit one of them. The truck is too spendy fix to acquire meat in that fashion.
Interesting, circular class dependencies in #PHP cause a silent crash. The fix is to move one of the dependencies out of the constructor.
Today's already looking up! Got my morning Monster to drink, it's snowing out, office is only a tad warm at 70. Today will be a good day!
OK, enough is enough. I am heading home! Work will be here in the morning...
I have mixed feelings about still being at work, but working on some really cool PHP stuff like Singletons. Only another hour or two more.
An interesting #googlewave Idea... I just embedded a google doc as an iframe into a google wave. So I can now discuss edits to the document.
If any #FVCP members want a Google Wave invite, just direct message me the email address you want it sent to!
Firefox just crashed on me, freed up 1.5GB of RAM. I only had a half dozen tabs open too!
Lets hope my new waterproof reinforced toe boots last longer then my last shoes. After 3 months, the heal 'pop'ed and they suck in snow.
Flippen Cook County and their outlandish sales tax. 10% WTF? I just bought some shoes because my last pair SUCKED. About 0. Stupid
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, only another hour more work till I am going home! YAY!
OK, I am going to go to bed. Got my second #FVCP presentation for tomorrow written and practiced at my poor wife. http://ow.ly/LKZg
One of my two presentations for tomorrow's #FVCP Online Security for Business is on Email Header Injection http://ow.ly/LJLy
This is life! Watching YouTube on the BoobTube, working in Sketchup, photo texture-mapping a building, all with Brother on my lap.
I was thinking about leftovers for dinner. Lasagna... from a month ago.
Sheesh, I must be getting old. This is the third night i am in bed so early.
Heh. I just got bumped from behind in the drive thru. No damage to my vehicle. How do you hit a SUV getting a burger?
It's Friday. I am still at work. I am going to fix this! Have a good weekend everybody!
Hrmm... I wonder what it means if my fortune in my fortune cookie is blank? An ominous sign for sure if one believed in such things.
I am giving a presentation tonight on Prevent SQL Injection. The slides can be found at http://ow.ly/KMnX
My rabbit fur bomber hat is MUCH better in this cold weather then the thin stocking cap I keep in my coat pocket.
My Great Aunt and Uncle's house burnt down this morning up in Northern Wi/MN. Total Loss. It was going to be 100 years old. They are ok.
It's 0.1 degrees outside. 60 in the bedroom, 61 in the dining room. I turned up the thermostat a touch in the dining room.
I just hooked my brother-in-law up with google voice. He's loving it so far! I do like that service.
**sighs** I broke down and turned on one of the heat registers tonight. It's supposed to get down to 4 degrees. Stupid electric heat.
It's a bit cold out. I helped a neighbor push out 2 stuck cars and got a bit chilled. Now, shutting of lappy to walk back home!
The Computer Coffee Table http://ow.ly/Ks11 is great for watching YouTube. It sucks for putting together presentations. Off to fetch laptop!
I wish I had some woods or a park closer to me that didn't close up at dark. I so want to wander around in the woods tonight!
Ah, finally, some winter weather. Don't get me wrong, I like still-winter - it's a vast improvement over road construction. I love winter!
The office at night.
I wandered over to the office tonight, in the snow and cold. I took a photo. What do you think?
Tags: work
OK, I had my fun driving out in that sloppy mess. I learned my Florida tires suck.
Oh! Snow! The nice, lovely big flakes about the size of quarters. Well, a few of them are, most aren't that big.
Oh wow it's amazing how you can get used to more then 1 monitor! I normally use 3, today 2 and am struggling, yesterday 1 & was worthless!
I made a pretty cool pouch with a snowflake embroidered onto it. The problem with doing stuff without a pattern is that it's too small!
The embroidery is done! A basic variation of http://www.needlenthread.com/2007/12/embroidery-pattern-snowflake.html but it's nice looking.
Fixing a torn pair of PJs turned into creating a small pouch turned into breaking out the embroidery kit and embroidering a snowflake! FUN!
I am wanting fresh cookies. So I am baking some. My wife bought some Otis Somethingratheranother frozen ones tonight for some kid thing.
Oh, my favorite online cook got a writeup! http://bit.ly/4FZydC I love listening to his hourish long cooking shows!
There might be hope this year for having a shoveled sidewalk this year! The guy on the 4 wheeler with a plow went all the way to the corner!
I broke the zipper pull of of my good winter coat. It's not really fixable, but i wonder if i can switch zipper heads with a less used one.
I wonder if I ask for honey at KFC if they would give me some instead of this crap. Honey Sauce: high fructose corn syrup, sugar, corn s ...
Somehow I am now sitting outside of MSP airport waiting to make sure a cousin made her flight out.
Yep. This music is getting already. Three more weeks. *sighs*
There was a dusting of snow on the ground this morning. They salted the parking lot so much it was like walking on marbles. What a waste ...
OH OH. I just started actual code work on that project for work. I may have bitten off more then I can chew!
A new project! 1 conf. call, a vague desc. of the end goals, missing 90% of data needed, many details on trivial items. Time to start code!
I just opened this roll of Duck tape, and it's utter crap. Cal me a tape elitist, but I like good Duct Tape. *sighs* I am out of good stuff.
It's 30 degrees outside, and 64 in my apartment. I think I will need to turn on the heat soon. There's just a smattering of snow outside now
I just wrote a search plugin for a Joomla! component I wrote. I SOOOOO want to hard code in extra random results for April Fools day.
Gotta love DIY documentation. How can the #joomla documentation be so lacking for so long for such a developed project?
It's snowing. Itty bitty little flakes. Not really even enough to mention, but it's still snow.
My wife must be pregnant. She is giving up steak for ice cream. She really loves her steak.
Oh, so cool! Digging deep into Joomla! 1.5 component building. There are some neat things that Joomla! provides.
Stretchy stuff is a pain to sew! I just scrunch and pucker everything up. It doesn't help that my machine loves dropping stitches either.
I think I want this belt... http://www.rei.com/product/757925
Sweet the PHP Advent site is running again this year! http://phpadvent.org/2009 A great end of the year read! #FVCP
I have a 3lb chicken in the rotisserie right now and it smells so good! But how in the world can they hatch, raise and butcher it for Tuesday, November 24, 2009.79
Making friends my favorite way... under the hood of a car on a cold, dark night. I stopped and held a flashlight for for some guy.
#JOOMLA This is now a documentation page that is now useful! More information and an example. http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_add_breadcrumbs
#JOOMLA #FAIL I tried looking up breadcrumbs in the programmer documentation. It just barely exists. Now I have to write the documentation!
My vacuum cleaner sucks... er... doesn't suck. Burnt up belt. Off to the store to find a belt for it. Maybe a filter set for it too...
Today is cleaning day. This means, I get to help clean until my help is more of a hindrance then I get kicked out of the house.
YAY! I fixed the sound on the computer. Wiggled a few wires and it's working again. YAY!
My wife is awesome! She brought home REAL eggs... you know, from chickens, not an egg factory!
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That was a good walk. Got to walk through 2 different pieces of woods. Got a few photos. Looking now to see if any are any good.
I saw my deer. Got photos. Poor ones. No shooting, dad hasn't seen anything yet.
Up bright and early.today. Going to go deer hunting with my father. He has a gun, me, a camera. Let's see who gets to shoot a bigger one!
- Success! Nice Mortice And Tennon Joints.
- Trying To Figure Out How To Use This Mortice Jig.
- Success! Nice Mortice And Tennon Joints.
- This phone is ticking me off. If you even get this it should be a ditch.
Snow. It's snowing here.
That was the worst fast food experience i have had in many years. I want that 45 minutes of my life back.
Half an hour, my wife got her food. Mine was missing. Hardees #FAIL
Low level format of brand new (several year old) Hard drives! Exciting! Now... will it be done before I have to leave?
OK, gonna reboot the computer. Gonna split my pair of 500GB IDE drives and make a pair of backup drives out of them.
I was just going to create a backup of my photos & videos to bring to my folks for remote storage. 18 DVDs. Uhm... Yeah... I need a plan B.
RT @tprinty: database indexes are awesome. That is all....
I was just informed that there really was a Mt. Dew in the fridge already. I ran out in the rain for some when I already had some! #FAIL
More photos on my blog about tonight's run-in-the-rain inspiring pizza. http://mike.creuzer.com/2009/11/pantry-pizza.html
- Home made from scratch "Pantry Pizza" & Mt. Dew.
Ding. Pizza is done. I am out walking in the rain. Need my DEW. Smokers and drug addicts i don't envy you one bit.
#DENIED! No Mt. Dew. Pizza is just about done, and I am out of soda! It's raining out, my pizza's about to come out, then I have to run out!
I feel like pizza tonight. But so many choices... And that's just what flour to use.
Pantry Pizza
Tonight, I just felt in the mood for Pizza. It's raining out, my wife has the Trucklet, and I just felt like pizza.
I call tonight's creation Pantry Pizza, well, because, I got it out of the pantry. Kinda an odd place to keep a pizza I know, but, it is what it is.
Lot's of good stuff in this pizza! Whole wheat flour, olives, mushrooms, and... could it be... Secret Ingredient #3? Yes! Corned Beef! I coulda made BBQ Chicken Pantry Pizza, or Pepporoni Pantry Pizza, or Beef Summer Sausage Pantry Pizza or Genoa Salami Pantry Pizza or even Dried Beef Pantry Pizza (not doing Tuna Fish Pantry Pizza, sorry), but tonight I went with the Corned Beef. A most excellent choice!
I even had bell peppers on this pizza! I put some dehydrated bell peppers in a bowl of warm water to re-hydrate. I was quite impressed with them after I fried them up a little bit.
I sauteed most of the onions, putting some raw ones right in the sauce for a bit of variety. I love garlic, so it got browned a bit in my cast iron pan. (actually, it's the lid to my dutch oven, but don't tell it that, you would break it's little cast iron heart!)
Lots of good stuff in the sauce. It turned out very good, if a bit acidic. I added more sugar then this to it, but it ended up a tad sweet but acidic. Any suggestions on de-acidifying tomatoes from a can?
Hmm... Corned Beef! Mushrooms and bell peppers too!!!
The pizza crust looks yummy, doesn't it? The extra got tossed in the freezer for another day. The dough is half "white wheat" flour and half unbleached all purpose flour. I think I am a big fan of this white-wheat flour.
The toppings look all nice and tastey, don't they?
Don't let my wife tell you I make a mess in the kitchen, it is simply true! My cheese exploded all over the counter and floor. I think this was my penance for using something from the fridge and not the pantry. There aren't many pantry-stable cheeses I would want to eat. I do wish I had a good root cellar, or cheese aging cave, but that's for a different reality - one where I am not making pantry pizza, so it's kinda defeating the purpose anyhow.
That crust looks pretty good after being blind baked, doesn't it? I don't have a batch of blind baking beans (they ended up in a neck hot-pad), so it's kinda bubbly in the middle. I have a pizza stone I just leave in the oven all the time, so this got baked off on the stone.
That's some darn good looking sauce! The chunks make it a bit difficult to swirl around evenly, but the taste more then makes up for it!
Full toppings, ready for some cheese!
And the final product! 1 perfect pantry pizza! 2 out of 2 people said it's the best pizza they had all day. One person even said it's good pizza even though they don't like pizza.
Anybody want the leftovers? It's more then I can eat!
Tags: cooking
I used a bit of scrap lumber I had to build the frame. I had kept a bundle of edge that got trimmed of some one-by at some point in the past.
The joints are just duct taped together. This is a temporary structure, so it's fine by me.
I created a duct tape hinge by leaving a gap in the wood when I taped it together. This allows the joint to hinge. Clever, I think.
I have moved this messed up roll of double sided tape, foam weather stripping from WI, to FL, to IL. I am such a packrat. It is a sickness. I can make cool things by scrounging around in a closet. **grin**
Here, I have the whole set up installed. The window isn't usable for looking out anymore, but that's not a big deal, the drainage ditch in the yard and street aren't that grand of a vista anyhow.
I used some small hooks to hold my contraption to the wall. I just screw them down until I can twist them and they will hold the frame snug. I used the weather stripping for both sealing and also shimming the frame out so the hooks would hold it snuggly. I put these around the right hand half, including on top.
On the left hand side, by the slider, I put just a single hook. I use this as the 'latch' as I can give it a quick twist, and the frame can open up on my duct-tape hinges. I can now use the sliding glass door, even though it's covered in 2 layers of plastic sheeting.
